War on Drugs: people are dying because of drugs trade?
What's your opinion on the following? My political science professor is pretty much all for it. The current violence going on in Mexico and South America is directly accredited to the street demand of drugs and narcotics in the United States. He wouldn't state his opinion on marijuana, but he did say that particularly the Mexican drug cartels is behind most of the marketshare of the weed sold on the streets in the US. Those same cartels also grow and traffic meth to a certain extent and cocaine. The cocaine itself is grown and processed in mostly Colombia but the cartels down there sometimes work with Mexican groups to get their merchandise into the United States, which has the most demand. The cross-border shootings, kidnappings and murders are accredited to Mexican gangs financed by the drug trade. Many of these kidnappings are also related to human trafficking- another income source for these gangs. He also mentioned he had a student from middle school who was kidnapped in 2005, and hasn't been heard from since. One of these gangs known as Los Zetas is for lack of a better term a paramilitary force who are sometimes better equipped than the Mexican government. They're comprised of corrupt and disgruntled Mexican military (a lot of the times corrupt Mexican special forces as well) and operate just across the border from Texas. Their business is warfare, and if you cross the border it is literally a battleground. Even on the US side you hear stories of bombings, high-profile murders and shootings in broad daylight. This group is directly financed by the same Mexican drug cartel trafficking mainly marijuana but crack/cocaine as well. He goes on to say that he doesn't care for people who think drugs should be legal and all. He has his own personal opinion about them and would rather not share it. Moralities aside, in the end people are dying and it's because of the drug trade. Thoughts?
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Capital punishment for addicts will end the drug trade. They are the cause of the problem. No addict and there is no profit from drugs for cartels to kill over.
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and people are dying from car crashes
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All drugs should be legal. You should be able to get 10 lbs of crack at CVS for $10. If someone wants to kill themselves go ahead. Killing all the drug dealers will just be replaced by other drug dealers and raise the price for drugs. 70% of the money spent in the criminal justice system is spent on drug enforcement. They release violent offenders from prison to make room for drug dealers. Last year in the local paper a man that committed armed robbery received less time than a man convicted of dealing drugs. This is just stupid! The drug laws have hurt society more than the drugs themselves. But drugs will never be legal, look how much money the government makes on them. There is some evidence that the government is importing it. The anti drug people believe that anyone that says drugs should be legal is a dope head. I'm not. Never have been. I don't like taking prescription drugs.
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There would be less crime if we had free flowing marijuana, meth and xtasy? Only a druggie would buy that line.
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prohibition didn't work for alcohol and it doesn't seem to be working for drugs. i had always thought that the Hippocratic oath was to do no harm. however pills have been prescribed that have done harm. did the doctors that prescribed them resign in shame? legalize them all and then spend some of the drug war budget on intelligent information.
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